Re: gettext

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> DESTDIR is prepended to the runtime path.  It can't be an arbitrarily
> different path.

No, because it is in what _root_ directory you are installing.  This
is very useful.

> If I built something to use /afs/example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local as its
> prefix and want to install in /afs/.example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local, which
> is a common thing to want to do with AFS since the former is a read-only
> path and the later is a read/write path, I can't do that with DESTDIR.

You should have made the prefix to be /usr/local and then used
DESTDIR, like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make install DESTDIR=/afs/.example.com/sw/@sys

prefix here would become "/afs/.example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local", this
way you can install it where ever you'd like.  If you use
DESTDIR/prefix the way it is supposed to be used then things work
quite flawlessly.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt